{"id":9542,"date":"2023-12-21T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9542"},"modified":"2023-12-21T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T17:03:24","slug":"the-shortest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9542","title":{"rendered":"The Shortest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To read aloud each year on this day.  Wishing a joyful season to you and to all your dear ones. Thank you, Susan Cooper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RoseWindowPost.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"775\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RoseWindowPost-775x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9543\" style=\"width:743px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RoseWindowPost-775x1024.jpg 775w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RoseWindowPost-227x300.jpg 227w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RoseWindowPost-768x1015.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/RoseWindowPost.jpg 1135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the Shortest Day came and the year died<br>And everywhere down the centuries of the snow\u2010white world   Came people singing, dancing,<br>To drive the dark away.<br>They lighted candles in the winter trees;  They hung their homes with evergreen;  They burned beseeching fires all night long  To keep the year alive.<br>And when the new year&#8217;s sunshine blazed awake  They shouted, reveling.<br>Through all the frosty ages you can hear them  Echoing behind us \u2010 listen!<br>All the long echoes, sing the same delight, This Shortest Day,<br>As promise wakens in the sleeping land:  They carol, feast, give thanks,<br>And dearly love their friends,  And hope for peace.<br>And so do we, here, now,  This year, and every year. <br>Welcome Yule!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014Susan Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To read aloud each year on this day. Wishing a joyful season to you and to all your dear ones. Thank you, Susan Cooper. So the Shortest Day came and the year diedAnd everywhere down the centuries of the snow\u2010white world Came people singing, dancing,To drive the dark away.They lighted candles in the winter trees;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=9542\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[145,47,23,61,19],"class_list":["post-9542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-painting","tag-cathedral","tag-dc","tag-festival","tag-oil","tag-poem"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9542"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9548,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9542\/revisions\/9548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}